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Teenage girl kidnapped in northern Sweden

Police in Sweden and Finland are looking for a 16-year-old girl feared kidnapped in Haparanda in northern Sweden on Saturday morning.

Published: 30 November 2008 11:39 CET

Police have classified the case as a suspected kidnapping and have appealed for witnesses.

The girl is reported to have been abducted in a dark blue BMW car by a bus station in central Haparanda – a town of less than 5,000 inhabitants and located 1,000 kilometres north of Stockholm on the border between Sweden and Finland.

Police confirmed that they are aware of a witness to the abduction but had by Saturday evening not managed to contact the person.

“We have only the first name of the witness,” Mikael Norén of Luleå police said to news agency TT late Saturday evening.

The young girl’s mother reported her daughter missing on Saturday evening.

The Swedish police have informed their Finnish colleagues and the Swedish customs and excise.

“But we don’t know if the car drove into Finland or whether it remains in Sweden,” Norén said.

POLICE

Spanish police arrest man over alleged kidnap of daughter at gunpoint in Britain

Spanish police said Wednesday they have arrested an Algerian man who allegedly snatched his two-year-old daughter at gunpoint in Britain and fled the country with her.

Published: 7 August 2019 14:22 CEST
Spanish police arrest man over alleged kidnap of daughter at gunpoint in Britain
File photo of a man in handcuffs. Photo: Anthony Wallace/AFP.

The 44-year-old was detained on a plane at Madrid airport during a scheduled stop en route to Oran, Algeria's second city, on August 1st, the same day he abducted his daughter in Nottingham, a police spokesman said.

The man, who had lost custody of his daughter, turned up at the house where she was staying “and took her by force after threatening the staff with a firearm and tying them up,” police said in a statement.

“Officers located and detained the fugitive in a plane which was about to take off. The girl was with him”.

British police said reports that the girl had been in a children's home were inaccurate and she was in fact taken from a family home.   

As part of the same investigation, British police have also arrested and charged a 43-year-old woman for child abduction, possession of a firearm, false imprisonment and aggravated burglary.

The girl was handed over to social services in Madrid until she can be returned to Britain, the Spanish police spokesman said.   

The man is waiting to appear before a judge in Madrid who will decide whether to extradite him back to Britain to face trial, he added.

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